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AIDS threat to all

Dear Editor:

It surprises me that a
paper like the North Shore
News would stoop so low
and print an article like
“Aids just God’s Botch’’ by
Doug Collins,

That such a bigot dures to
use God's name is beyond
me. This man surely shows
his ignorance. There are
women and children dying
of AIDS as well as gay and
bisexual men. His use of the
word homo surely tells all of
your readers what type of
person he is.

In Central Africa, in
places like Zaire, one third
of hospital beds are taken up
by people with Aids, more
than 50% of them women
and children. This type of
reporting is dangerous to all
of us. We all must support
those who are fighting this

Problems

Dear Editor:

Supporting Anne Clark's
letter in your Friday, August
16 issue objecting to por-
nographic periodicals being
sold in Lions Gate Hospital
gift shop:

These identical periodicals
were removed without ques-
tion from the gift shop of

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terrible disease before it
becomes more of a threat to
the general population.

Bob Tivey
Project Director
Aids Vancouver

Is gesture token?

Dear Editor:

It would seem Doug Col-
lins is either a piker or
without conviction of his
own statements. He is sen-
ding $25 to help Keegstra
with his defence trial.

It was not too long ago
that Mr. Collins sat smugly
in his West Vancouver home
telling old age pensioners
they should not be upset by
the government’s plan to
de-index their pensions. No

doubt Mr. Collins has a few
bucks set aside, so his con-
tribution of only $25 is not
in keeping with his financial
Status,

It could also be that Mr.
Collins considers this a
token gesture and does not
believe all the stuff he writes
about.

1 prefer to support the
recognized charities.

D.G. Wilson
North Vancouver

stem from Playboy

Richmond General Hospital
when the Board was appris-
ed that statistical figures,
compiled by experts, afford-
ed incontestable proof that
proliferation of such period-
icals, i.e., ‘*Playboy’’,
‘Playgirl’? and others con-
tribute largely to the
widespread sexual abuse of

defenceless children.

One reads occasionally of
transition house battered
women who maintain that a
large portion of their pro-
blems stem from por-
nography in all its grada-
tions.

Olive Wyatt, R.N.,
North Vancouver

7 - Wednesday, August 28, 1985 - North Shore News

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